This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...as platforms and screens from which the hunters can shoot into the herd. What is most remarkable about the group is that there is a break A in the bank of the river which looks as if it had been used as a path, and had been worn down by the feet of the animals as they escaped from the drive. Generally buffaloes pitch ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...as platforms and screens from which the hunters can shoot into the herd. What is most remarkable about the group is that there is a break A in the bank of the river which looks as if it had been used as a path, and had been worn down by the feet of the animals as they escaped from the drive. Generally buffaloes pitch over the banks of rivers, and plunge into the water without stopping, but here the herd seem to have been impeded by the artificial structure, and only escaped individually and separately. Another group similar to this has been surveyed by Dr. Lapham. See Fig. 120. It is situated near the Wisconsin River, on S. 8, 7, 8, R. 4. It consists of a series of oblong and conical tumuli and an effigy of a bird. The tumuli are composed of sand. "The bird is of the same material, and we found it very difficult to trace the exact outline from this cause. It may be regarded as representing a barbed spear head or arrow point. Were we to confine our attention to one or two oblong mounds, on the edge of a bank, we might be led to regard them as breastworks, or parapets for defense, and perhaps to command the channel of the river; but an in spection of the whole group shows clearly that no such purpose could have been intended."1 This group of mounds is worthy of special notice, for it contains a series of long ridges near a bluff, and from the location of the ridges, we gather the idea that this also was a game drive. The break in the bluff is in the midst of the group, 1See Lapham, Antiquities, P. 68, Pl. XLII, No. 1. We leave the subject here for the present, but think that our readers will see from what has been said that this is one use to which the mounds were put. Long ridges and parallel mounds like these are very common, but wherever they hav...
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